New The Middle East Video – “Blood”

Collage Queens Greedy Hen are at their fantastical best in the stop-animation video for ‘Blood’ by The Middle East.

Greedy Hen’s dream world is the perfect visual foil to the quiet gravity in the Townsville outfit’s orchestral pop – all lush vocal harmonies, delicate arrangements and meandering instrumentation tenuously fixed with tree sap and clag. Despite their age and scant recorded material, The Middle East recall Arcade Fire’s capacity to evoke and Fleet Foxes’ pastoral brush strokes often forging rousing call to arms and slow-burning magic in the space of one song. If you had to describe what gorgeous looked and sounded like – this would be it.


THE MIDDLE EAST OCTOBER TOUR 2009

Thursday October 8, Princess Theatre, Brisbane
Friday October 9, Manning Bar, Sydney
Saturday October 10, ANU Bar, Canberra
Sunday October 11, The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

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